CFP: Callaloo: Visual Culture (11/1/06; journal issue)

full name / name of organization:

Callaloo

contact email:

callaloo@english.tamu.edu

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE ON VISUAL CULTURE

In celebration of its 30th anniversary and its commitment to exploring theintersection of literary and visual art, Callaloo will publish an issue thatfocuses on visual culture and collaboration in the African American context.This special visual culture issue will feature visual and written works thatexamine the important crossroads—where literary and visual art meet—thatCallaloo provides. We seek, then, creative responses, critical reflections,texts, prose fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and/or critical essays that:look historically, analytically, or musingly at how visual images functionwithin the pages and on the covers of previous issues of Callaloo; reflecton the role the journal has played in the careers of artists, writers, andartist-writers; and/or consider how artistic identity is portrayed,represented, and performed textually and visually in the space of thejournal. We also seek creative and critical tracts that thinkphilosophically about collaborations and interactions among artists,authors, and visual culture sites; relationships between visual and literaryart; the challenges of bridging disciplines when writing about visual and/orliterary art; and/or the similarities and differences in conjuring andinterpreting images in different media. Texts that contemplate the makingand/or experiencing of art, exhibitions, and visual culture; the roles ofarts education or pedagogy in the development of literary and visual art;the written descriptions and interpretations of visual culture, sites, andphenomena; the memorialization of African American people, art, and culturein museums and other visual culture sites; and the collecting of art of/byAfrican American or African Diasporic artists, among others, will likewisebe considered. We also appreciate projects that assess ways that race,gender, sexuality, class or ability inflect or influence the above or otherrelated topics.

Paper submissions should be 3000-5000 words and follow MLA format. Poetry,creative and/or curatorial responses may be significantly shorter. Artistproposals should include text and electronic images. Please include a200-word bio and abbreviated curriculum vitae with your submission. Submitin triplicate, along with contact information by November 1, 2006, to: